Commentary
COMMENTARY: The predicament of the Portsmouth Town Council
May 23, 2013 | Comments: 31News surfaced recently that the Mayor of Portsmouth, Mr. Cleve St Jean, is worried that the Portsmouth Town Council is at risk of slipping into irrelevance through ...
COMMENTARY: Decriminalization of homosexuality – what it means for the Catholic Church in Dominica
May 21, 2013 | Comments: 171In response to the claim of the advocacy group, Minority Rights Dominica (MiriDom) that the Catholic Church in Dominica is not reflecting the Vatican’s ...
The Digital Economy and The Caribbean – Opportinities and Challenges
May 8, 2013 | Comments: 4The emblematic symbol of the Knowledge economy is the electronic computer and its various offshoots like the mobile telephone and the internet. Knowledge was always ...
Dr. Shillingford-Ricketts on Blind Awareness Month
May 3, 2013 | Comments: 4The month of May has been designated as “Blindness Awareness Month”. This means that during the month of May there will be a number of programs geared towards ...
REVIEW: New Dimension Theatre’s ‘Desired Will’
May 2, 2013 | Comments: 21Desired Will is a tricky bag of promises that could lead you down several directions. The play Desired Will proved to be a staging that chose one direction though. ...
COMMENTARY: Tragedy strikes La Plaine and the east again
April 25, 2013 | Comments: 45The south eastern rural agricultural community of La Plaine which nestles between the foothills Morne Gorverneur and the rugged Windward Atlantic coast (Au Vent) is ...
PARTY PERSPECTIVE: UWP Puts Dominican People First
April 24, 2013 | Comments: 24Editor’s note: This column provides the opportunity for political parties on the island to provide comprehensive, unaltered expression of their positions on ...
“Speed, danger, angles, turns and curves – Golf and Formula 1 have so much in common!”
April 14, 2013 | Comments: 4Golf is, to me, the only sport that is not entirely a game, but more a science. It is also quite unforgiving! I love golf, but do not play it; yet. Who knows? ...
Quite a Life!
April 13, 2013 | Comments: 18Persons have been telling me that Star Lestrade must have been quite a character, and they wanted to learn more about him. Not one for panegyrics or eulogies, I ...
Is Shane Shillingford the best since Lance Gibbs?
April 7, 2013 | Comments: 30Greetings in the name of my Master, Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. A former west Indies batsman and I were discussing about cricket. When I mentioned Shane, he then ...
COMMENTARY: Do the youth have a role to play in the prevention of crime?
April 5, 2013 | Comments: 7Juvenile crime is big news! In recent times, our local media has been saturated by accounts of youthful wrongdoings, with acts committed in Portsmouth or by ...
MUSINGS OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC ECONOMIST: Tax Policy and Health
April 1, 2013 | Comments: 19I have been moved to write this short paper by two news items appearing in DNO. The first one is entitled “ Dominica Tackles Non Communicable Diseases” and ...
Geothermal Resources Development versus Hydropower Expansion
March 26, 2013 | Comments: 29Editor’s note: The following is a statement by Energy Minister, Rayburn Blackmoore, in response to a call made by UWP Senator, Norris Prevost, to Government, ...
COMMENTARY: Attitude, our biggest impediment to greater productivity and higher salaries
March 23, 2013 | Comments: 55Author’s note: Elements of this article were first published in 1984. Not much has changed in attitudes since then, except perhaps for becoming worse. – PRB ...
THE MUSINGS OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC ECONOMIST: The Copyright System in Practice (part 4)
February 17, 2013 | Comments: 0Today we will cover the final part of the series but before we get into the discussion I want to answer a question which more than one reader has asked me. The ...